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Payflow

“Can an employer-paid earned-wage-access wedge grow into the payroll-linked financial super-app for Iberia and Latin America?”

Founded2020
HQMadrid, Spain (originally Barcelona)
Total raised€24M equity + €27M debt (~$51M)
Latest roundLater Stage VC, $28.6M
IndustryFintech / Consumer banking
The story

Payflow launched in 2020 in Barcelona as a B2B2C earned-wage-access service that charged the employer (not the employee) a fee to let staff withdraw earned salary on demand — an angle designed to win over works councils and unions. After the 2022 Series A the company positioned itself as a broader financial-wellness super-app for the Iberian and LatAm workforce, adding flexible compensation (retribución flexible) and stating an ambition to evolve into a neobank. Today it markets a single-app payroll-adjacent wellness product to more than 1,000 enterprise employers across Spain, Portugal, Colombia and Peru.

Last 12 months
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Product timeline
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Expanded product to include flexible retribution (retribución flexible) alongside EWA in a single mobile app· product
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Expanded internationally to Portugal, Colombia and Peru; over 1,000 employer clients including Decathlon, Alcampo, Mango, Correos, MásMóvil, Claro, Smart Fit· expansion
2020
Founded in Barcelona as an on-demand salary advance (EWA) service for employers· launch
2021
Backed by Y Combinator (S21 batch)· funding
2022
Raised $9.1M Series A led by Seaya Ventures and Cathay Innovation to pursue a super-app/neobank strategy· funding
The stack
1 layer disclosed in Payflow’s embedded-finance stack
Lending
Payflow (in-house EWA)
Accounting gap: minor